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@GalenBalinski @twin_minerva @RealTStevenson @benshapiro If LDS teachings on Christ’s gospel produce those fruits, then they cannot be lies. By claiming the teachings are purportedly lies and thus bad fruit you attempt to undercut the whole point of Matthew 7.

@GalenBalinski @twin_minerva @RealTStevenson @benshapiro You’re conflating the tree with the fruits in your claim that they spread lies. The fruits are strong families, committed worshipers of Christ, knowledge of the bible among the highest Christian sects, immense charitable giving. Those are the fruits. LDS teachings produce those.

@GalenBalinski @twin_minerva @RealTStevenson @benshapiro You realize the leaders of the LDS church are just every day members who have been called up to serve in leadership positions? They have served their whole lives as local unpaid volunteers n congregations only to get called up as apostles, regional authorities, etc.

Ben Shapiro today on his podcast: “There is no category of humans that are entirely good and honest… …maybe the Mormons come close.”

@jmacmcgrady @WestonMorris7 @MartaTomaso @parallelecinico By your interpretation, we shouldn’t use any part of the Bible written after Deuteronomy 4:2. Because you apparently believe that language means there can be no additional scripture. We also couldn’t use other books of the New Testament that were written after Revelation.

@GregDN2 @WestonMorris7 @MartaTomaso @parallelecinico “The Bible is not enough” just proves the invalidity of your religion.

A sinistra, nel 2016, un ragazzo si trova in Nicaragua, è lì da due anni dopo aver abbandonato il basket e la famiglia per “portare la parola di Gesù Cristo” tra le persone più disagiate del paese. Una notte subisce una rapina e viene malmenato da quattro persone: gli serviranno sei mesi di cure dentistiche e due denti finti nuovi. A destra, questa notte, c’è un ragazzo che ha trascinato Cleveland in finale di Conference dominando gara 7 contro Detroit, con 23 punti in 25 minuti in uscita dalla panchina. In bocca ha il paradenti perché, per esperienza, sa bene che i dentisti possono costare come un attico in centro storico a Milano. Entrambi i ragazzi rispondono al nome di Sam Merrill.

@jmacmcgrady @WestonMorris7 @MartaTomaso @parallelecinico Now you’re posting scriptures you obviously don’t understand? As reflected by own source, John was referring specifically to the Book of Revelation, not “the Bible” which didn’t even exist at that time. We LDS have not taken away or added to the Book of Revelation in any way.

@jmacmcgrady @WestonMorris7 @MartaTomaso @parallelecinico Plus you’re still spreading lies about our faith you heard from other so called Christians when you’re clearly ignorant about what we believe. Is deceiving others ok in your sect of Christianity?

@jmacmcgrady @WestonMorris7 @MartaTomaso @parallelecinico The Bible obviously is NOT enough. Why are there so many Christian churches that interpret it so differently? Is praying to images of Mary or other saints a good thing or idol worship? Is baptism necessary for salvation or not? Different sects will answer these things differently

@jmacmcgrady @WestonMorris7 @MartaTomaso @parallelecinico Granted, most Christian reject the Book of Mormon and J. Smith’s claims about both its origin and the restoration of Christ’s church. But it’s inaccurate to just say we worship a “different Jesus.” We believe in the Jesus of the Bible, even if we have many differences in faith.

@jmacmcgrady @WestonMorris7 @MartaTomaso @parallelecinico The Gospel of Jesus as set out in the Bible is the same as that taught be the Book of Mormon. But it serves as a second witness of Christ. It’s important to us because (1) it’s also scripture and (2) its coming forth also marks the restoration of Christ’s original church.

@jmacmcgrady @MartaTomaso @parallelecinico We LDS are disciples of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, whose ministry, crucifiction, and resurrection are recorded in the New Testament. We do not subscribe to the non-biblical creeds written by men centuries later. You creedalists are not the gatekeepers of true Christianity.

@MartaTomaso @parallelecinico Also its not the same "Jesus Christ" and "Lord" that Christians worship but that's another story...

@JReubenCIark @SprawlOnoSendAi Yes. It’s a sin to break a covenant. Although the WoW was not originally revealed as a commandment, we Latter Day Saints have, as a church body, covenanted with the Lord not to partake tobacco/alcohol/coffee/tea/etc, whereas saints of past dispensations made no such covenants.

@SprawlOnoSendAi I think this is the wrong way of defining sin. Sometimes we are commanded to do one thing, sometimes another, and disobeying commandments is always a sin.

If you're wondering why so many ppl were mad about something as innocent as a guy putting his wife through med school, you are missing the point. Like discovering the black monolith on the moon in "2001" and saying, "what's the big deal? Never seen a black rectangle before?" This guy wasn't chosen at random by drawing every digit of his church record number like it's the Powerball. He was put here on purpose by an unseen intelligence, like the monolith. Someone decided, rather than highlight one of the much more numerous LDS wives who supported their husbands through a professional education, they wanted to highlight this particular kind of situation. And who was this person that decided? President Oaks? Obviously not. It was someone in a Church marketing office. And probably not someone even particularly high up. The point of mentioning this is not to denigrate or discredit them, but to help understand why they did this. I'll be honest with you; in my LDS group chats it's been a running joke for *years* now that the church social media people simply cannot help but try to highlight anyone who is not a "typical" Latter-day Saint. Gays, refugees, disabled ppl, single hipster women in Brooklyn that don't need no man and only attend church sporadically, etc. We often wondered when they were going to actually profile someone you might actually meet at an LDS chapel on a typical sunday: a white middle to upper middle class professional man who votes republican and has 4+ kids who were raised, at least when they were little, by a SAHM. And when I saw someone retweet this, I was so amazed to a see a normal-looking white guy married to a woman that I didn't even read the whole caption before copying it to post in the GC to share my amazement. But *of course* there was a catch. I'm not saying this bc I'm upset at not being "represented," but when the image that the marketers choose to package the Church in is *defined* by church members who live "outside the box," it's easy to forget why the box exists at all; that there was ever a reason in the first place why things like "Mom works outside the home to support the family" were discouraged by generations of Church leaders, including the present generation. One of my friends compared this to depicting a church member who drinks alcohol bc they're "different." I don't think that's quite right; unlike w alcohol, there is no bright-line sin being committed here, we all understand that sometimes circumstances warrant women working out of the home. But herein is the ax that I am constantly grinding: There is more to work of the Kingdom than not sinning. Just because something is "not a sin" doesn't mean that it was right to single it out for praise with the imprimatur of the Church behind it. And to say that this kind of marketing is counterproductive is not to condemn the poor guy in the picture. This is how Mormies get got; they see something so mildly subversive that to be offended at it makes one look unreasonable. So at most they grumble as official Church communication channels are used to promote our Glorious Girlboss Future. They only get exercised to the point of speaking out when some uppity rw edgelords dare to question The Lord's Twitter Account. I'd even go so far as to say that the aspiring girlbosses in the marketing department are themselves more subverted than subverters. They're not trying to tear anything down, this kind of thing is just the air they breathe. "Of COURSE we highlighted the progressive young man who supports his hardworking wife, he deserves praise for Breaking the Mold, are you closed-minded or something?" Personally I found it more boringly conformist than it is outrageous, but this is just a sign of my decadent old age. It is for younger, more energetic and idealistic men than I to bully some poor social media intern in SLC into shutting off twitter replies. Godspeed.

@collinsworth55 Collin Gillespie too (though he’s listed at 6’1”)

Who’s the only other undersized white PG in the NBA!? 😂

@Splougy @hankrsmith Ancient Christians practiced baptism for the dead. Why did Paul cite the practice as support for the reality of the resurrection and never condemn it? It was only prohibited centuries later. One of the many precious truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ lost in the Great Apostasy.

@hankrsmith It’s wild how fragmented views of the dead are. Many Protestants reject prayer for the dead entirely. Mormonism goes the opposite way, baptism and exaltation for the dead. Both depart from historic Christianity.

“The dead who repent will be redeemed.”

@countjor @JasminRappleye Keep in mind that conservatives vary much more in their range of positions on many issues.

@countjor @JasminRappleye And progressives/those on the left are much less likely to allow disagreement with these. I don’t know that that the conservative side has a similar list of key positions antithetical to the Gospel Is there a comparable list for similarly central conservative positions? And

Hard truth about conservatives leaving the church, according to social science. A lot of people have assumed that being politically liberal or progressive was the fastest pathway out of the church, but new data shows that we’ve been missing a piece to the puzzle.

@noahsmitty2003 @sltrib I’m sure there will be an apostle of African descent at some point. However, it won’t be because of DEI or concerns of representation, but because the Lord chose him. The men with the body of experience conducive to being called an apostle happen to be mostly white thus far.

@noahsmitty2003 @sltrib Amen. Any members who complain about who is called as an apostle or other general authority are just displaying either lack of real faith or ignorance of how the Church is run.

In naming the second new apostle of his four-month LDS Church presidency, Dallin H. Oaks selected Clark Gilbert, the controversial commissioner of church education. sltrib.com/religion/2026/…

@Nacho90uy @Ch_JesusChrist @ClarkG_Gilbert @OaksDallinH Take your complaints up with your Creator - the one who selected Elder Gilbert and every other Apostle through revelation

@Ch_JesusChrist @ClarkG_Gilbert @OaksDallinH Another American in a world church, Who would’ve thought?

Elder Clark G. Gilbert (@ClarkG_Gilbert) is the newest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was called on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, and ordained on Thursday, February 12, by President Dallin H. Oaks (@OaksDallinH) and the other members of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Elder Gilbert, 55, was born in Oakland, California, and spent most of his childhood in Phoenix, Arizona. He has served as a General Authority Seventy since April 2021 and as the Commissioner of the Church Educational System since August of that year. “This is an amazing time to point people to the Savior Jesus Christ,” Elder Gilbert said on Thursday. “When we do that, we can find joy and comfort and peace in Him. As President [Russell M.] Nelson once said, it’s much harder to find happiness where it doesn’t exist. And we’re so grateful that I have this calling now to witness that Jesus is the Christ. If people all across the world will look to Him, He will make their lives better, more meaningful, more joyful. And it happens in and through our Savior Jesus Christ.” Learn more on Church Newsroom. newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/clark-…